8-1-09 Saturday...Trip to Montserrat and Sitges

Well today was the first time since I’ve been here that I have woken up before 8! I woke up at 6 AM to shower and get ready for our day. I got ready and got my bag ready to go to the beach. Kaila and I went downstairs to make our sandwiches and had to say goodbye to Ama…sad morning! Kaila and I were on off a later start to the morning and as we’re walking out the door and down the stairs we see our bus go by! Oh great, right? So we get to the bus stop thinking we’d have to wait about 5 minutes, ummm try 20! So now it’s about 7:20 that we’re on the bus, mind you we have to be on the other side of town, by 7:45 to make our bus for the trip! Of course, we have to stop at just about every stoplight on the way. Finally, our stop arrives and now it’s time for the Metro. So we literally run though the metro to find as we’re scurrying down the stairs our Metro’s doors are closing and it’s off. Now we have to wait another 5 minutes for the next Metro to come and it’s now 7:36 AM…it takes about another 10 minutes to get to the stop we need. Finally our Metro comes and our stop comes 10 minutes later and we’re running up the stairs and out the exit. Of course, we walked out of the wrong exit and we 3 blocks away from where we needed to be. Then we see buses leaving and get really scared! This is Kaila’s number one place to go and if she missed it she would be so upset…plus we’d be out 30 Euros! Thankfully, it wasn’t our bus and we found our group of people! Only in Spain, do they run behind on time…all the time! It always seems whenever Kaila and I have to be somewhere we are always late…but if we don’t we’re there before we need to be! *Ahem* Going to the beach on the first day of school…haha. Oh boy! Well anyways, now we’re on the bus going to Montserrat (about 45 minutes from Barcelona), which I found out is a Monastery, on top of a mountain. It was beautiful and scary all at the same time! Our bus ride up was on windy corners, on a narrow road, with the bus driver driving furiously and scary! I thought I would not make it! But of course I did, otherwise I would not be writing this! Anyways, we did a lot of walking and I think I may have burned all the calories I ate here in one day! Haha, right, I wish! But we did do a lot of walking and climbing stairs, I was dripping with sweat and my face was so red! I got a few good pictures and nice views from the mountain…and for once is was refreshing to be outside! There was wind and not a lot of sun, and just plain nice! After Montserrat, we ventured to Sitges (about an hour from Barcelona), which has a really nice beach and lots of stores. We stayed on the beach for the whole afternoon and swam in the water and suntanned. It was very nice and relaxing and I’m a bit burnt. I even put on sun block but am a little pink. Oh well. We arrived back in Barcelona around 7:45 and I called Jordon again…I wanted to see if he got a hold of my mom. Can you not tell I really miss him? Geesh. Afterwards, we ate dinner and had pizza and salad. It was really good and homemade. Mmm…we had some chocolate pudding for dessert…no ice cream tonight. Man I love ice cream! Now it’s off to bed early again because we’re taking another day trip to Tarragona. It has a beach and museums (which I am probably not going to, I am muesuem’ed out…) and I would just like to relax again for a weekend…today marks 1 week left until I am legally able to drink/buy alcohol in the US-of A. Man oh man, I am getting old! Buenas noches amigos! Mucho love…